The BBC has just revealed further details of the story everyone is talking about – BBC presenter salaries. It’s been another good year for Huw Edwards, who’s clocked in a nice 10% pay rise and is the third-highest paid presenter. In fact it’s a score of pay rises is on the board all as the BBC loses viewers, slashes Newsnight, and complains that it is cash-strapped. Gary Lineker remains the corporation’s highest earner, on £1,354,999…
Nick Robinson, John Kay, and Reeta Chakrabarti have scored some of the cosiest rises. Here are the highest-earning politicos, and others:
Today
World at One
PM
BBC News at One, Six and Ten
Question Time
Newsnight
BBC Breakfast
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
On-air editors and correspondents
Non-politics or news
While the BBC rants on about equality and diversity its gender wage gap has actually widened by about a percentage point when measured both in mean and median pay. Co-conspirators can read the full report here. An absolute joke for hard pressed licence fee payers…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”